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7th JULY -CURRENT AFFAIRS

7th JULY -CURRENT AFFAIRS

JAIPUR – INDIA’s 38TH UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE TAG

·        Pink City JAIPUR becomes India gets its 38th UNESCO World Heritage Site

·        Jaipur was deliberately planned as a new city on the plains open for trade as opposed to hilly terrain and military cities of past.

·        Its iconic monuments such as the Govind Dev temple, City Palace, Jantar Mantar and Hawa Mahal excel in artistic and architectural craftsmanship of the period.


SPORTS CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE


·        Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Youth Affairs and Sports Kiren Rijiju informed that central government is going to set-up three Sports Centre of Excellence in Itanagar very soon.

·        The three centre of excellence will be for Martial Arts, Weight Lifting and Boxing.
·        These centres will have a capacity of 300 sportspersons with residential facility.


DEEP-CEE


·        Deep-CEE”- Deep Learning for Galaxy Cluster Extraction and Evaluation is an Artificial Intelligence-powered tool to identify galaxy clusters quickly.

· DEEP-CEE can look at colour images and identify galaxy clusters very quickly.

·   The “Deep-CEE” model is based on neural networks, exactly like the way a human brain recognises objects by activating specific neurons when visualising distinctive patterns and colours.


Indian Haj Information System (Haj App):
·        As a part of the Government of India’s initiative of Digital India, Indian Haj Mission in Saudi Arabia has developed an app called HAJ APP to help pilgrims.

Indian Haj Information ·        System (Haj App) has been developed to receive feedback, a grievance from Hajis.
·        The app also connects with the pilgrims to Haj service coordinators known as Qadimul Hajjaj of their respective states. Qadimul Hajjaj are government employees who are deputed to assist pilgrims during Haj season.

e-MASIHA:

·        Health status and medical history of visiting pilgrims is being stored at online “e-MASIHA” (Medical Assistance System for Indian Hajis Abroad).
·        E-MASIHA would retrieve pilgrims’ health information to apply appropriate treatment whenever he or she visits Indian medical facilities during Haj.

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